SURINAME – From now on ‘s Lands Hospital will subject newborns to its neonatal hearing screening. The hospital officially launched its neonatal hearing screening pilot project on Thursday. The pilot project will reportedly last one year. “The plan is to carry out the project at ‘s Lands Hospital because 40% of the nation’s babies are born here,” said Henk Rutten, secretary/ treasurer at the Blaka Rosoe Foundation. The project will be carried out at one location first because that makes it easier to monitor the developments and to detect the teething problems…[+]